Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of
Babette Deutsch
Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.
Background
Babette Deutsch was born on September 22, 1895, in New York City. Her parents were of Michael Deutsch and Melanie Fish ...
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Yarmolinsky was head of the Slavonic Division of the
New York Public Library
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from 1918 to 1955.
[ He also taught at Columbia University and the ]City College of New York
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Books
* ''Dostoievsky, A Life''
* ''A treasury of great Russian short stories - from Pushkin to Gorky''
* ''A Treasury of Russian Verse''
* '' Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism''
* ''Turgenev: The Man, His Art and His Age''
* ''The Russian Literary Imagination''
* ''Russians: Then and Now - A Selection of Russian Writing from the Seventeenth Century of Our Own Day''
* ''The Portable Chekhov'' - Viking Press, 1947
References
Further reading
*S.J. Kunitz (ed.), Twentieth Century Authors, first supplement (1955)
*H.M. Lyndenberg, in: New York Public Library Bulletin, 59 (March 1955), 107–32, list of works
*R. Yachnin, ibid., 72 (June 1968), 414–9, list of works 1955–67
*Bulletin of New York Public Library, March, 1955;
* Chicago Sunday Tribune, May 3, 1959;
*New York Times Book Review
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, May 10, 1959;
*Commonweal
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, August 28, 1959
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City College of New York faculty
Literature educators
1890 births
1975 deaths
Ukrainian Jews
University of Neuchâtel alumni
City College of New York alumni
Columbia University alumni
20th-century translators
Expatriates in Switzerland
20th-century American male writers
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